Terrence W.K. Mak is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Data Science & AI - Faculty of IT. He is working with both the Optimization group, leaded by Prof. Peter Stuckey, and the Sustainable Energy Research group, leaded by Prof. Ariel Liebman. His primary interest lie on the intersections of optimization and machine learning applications on energy systems and the future smart grids. He has obtained a PhD (2018) from the Australian National University, a MPhil (2011) & a BSc (2009) from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He was a Postdoc Fellow in Georgia Tech and a Research Associate in University of Michigan. He has worked with his fomer PhD & Postdoc supervisor Prof. Pascal Van Hentenryck for over 10 years through University of Melbourne, Australian National University, University of Michigan, and Georgia Tech, and over 5 years with his former Master & Bachelor supervisor Prof. Jimmy Lee in Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has experience over multiple research domains and has publications spanning over computer science (AI/ML/differential privacy), electrical engineering (power/natural gas/control), and operations research (MILP/NLP).